The photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains for low noise microwave signal generation

F Quinlan - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical signals derived from optical sources have achieved record‐low levels of phase
noise, and have demonstrated the highest frequency stability yet achieved in the microwave …

Theoretical and experimental investigations of dispersion-managed, polarization-maintaining 1-GHz mode-locked fiber lasers

D Song, K Yin, R Miao, C Zhang, Z Xu, T Jiang - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
High-repetition-rate (up to GHz) femtosecond mode-locked lasers have attracted significant
attention in many applications, such as broadband spectroscopy, high-speed optical …

[HTML][HTML] 10 GHz generation with ultra-low phase noise via the transfer oscillator technique

NV Nardelli, TM Fortier, M Pomponio, E Baumann… - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Coherent frequency division of high-stability optical sources permits the extraction of
microwave signals with ultra-low phase noise, enabling their application to systems with …

Fully phase-stabilized 1 GHz turnkey frequency comb at 1.56 µm

DMB Lesko, AJ Lind, N Hoghooghi, A Kowligy… - OSA …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Low noise and high repetition rate optical frequency combs are desirable for many
applications, from timekee** to precision spectroscopy. For example, gigahertz repetition …

Deployment of a transportable Yb optical<? pag\break?> lattice clock

T Bothwell, W Brand, R Fasano, T Akin, J Whalen… - Optics Letters, 2025 - opg.optica.org
We report on the first deployment of a ytterbium (Yb) transportable optical lattice clock
(TOLC), commercially ship** the clock 3000 km from Boulder, Colorado, to Washington …

Digital Doppler-cancellation servo for ultrastable optical frequency dissemination over fiber

S Mukherjee, J Millo, B Marechal… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Progress made in optical references, including ultrastable Fabry–Perot cavities, optical
frequency combs, and optical atomic clocks, has driven the need for ultrastable optical fiber …

Frequency stable microwave sapphire oscillators

EN Ivanov, ME Tobar - IEEE Microwave and Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show that state-of-the-art phase noise and high frequency stability could be
simultaneously achieved in a microwave oscillator based on the sapphire-loaded cavity …

Phase noise mitigation of the microwave-tophotonic conversion process using feedback on the laser current

D Teyssieux, R Boudot, C Fluhr, J Millo - Journal of the Optical Society …, 2022 - hal.science
The generation and transfer of ultra-stable microwave signals are of paramount importance
in numerous applications spanning from radar systems to communications and metrology …

Noise suppression with cryogenic resonators

EN Ivanov, ME Tobar - IEEE Microwave and Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show that fast technical fluctuations of microwave signals can be strongly suppressed by
cryogenic resonators. The experiments were carried out with sapphire resonators cooled to …

Photonically referenced extremely stable oscillator

K Şafak, EC Vargas, A Dai, M Edelmann, F Emaury… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Due to their low phase noise at high carrier frequencies, photonic microwave oscillators are
continuously expanding their application areas including digital signal processing …